I loved this show. It’s sad the direction it went, I believe due to union strikes I’m not sure. I knew it was doomed when (I’m so bad with names) brother absorber of power brings that foreign non hero girl to an alternate timeline and just leaves her there and they never mentioned her again.

Having a power absorber hero was a mistake, period. A character like that gets too powerful that there won't be any conflict left. Good writers would give such a character proper weaknesses and drawbacks to their powers, or provide conflicts that can't be resolved just by using powers.

The Heroes writers decided to make Peter too stupid to remember that he can just use his powers to solve everything.

There ended up being a lot of conflict behind the scenes that significantly lowered the quality of the show. Major cast members being switched out without a proper resolution, crap writing, eye candy for the sake of eye candy (Kari Wuhrer)-- it just turned to shit.

Had management been less incompetent this show would have been incredible. The idea that jumping into a portal could put you into an entirely new reality is like a free ticket to write whatever creative shit you can think up. This was a fantastic opportunity which they put to good use for a few episodes. Like when they visited that world where all men died off from some fatal epidemic, so the ones left are treated as little more than reproductive machines and objectified as sex objects. That's good science fiction which brings attention to gender inequality and the human condition, not to mention some humor. It also provides the reset that a lot of series have for the first season or two, where crazy things can happen but the next episode starts fresh with a new setting and idea. They screwed up on what could have been one of the best sci-fi shows of all time.

Having read the book, I wasn't TOO hopeful for the show, but man did the show get rough. The show's ending (albeit abrupt due to cancellation) got more of an eye roll from me than the ending of the book.